Our teacher!
2/3 of the class. As the weeks passed the class became smaller and smaller. It was a bit intese. ;-)
It hardly seems possible that I've been gone for over a month now. Wow!I absolutely love this place and my classes and everything. I cannot believe that I am learning another language and have the opportunity to travel anywhere, as long as it fits into the schedule. ;-)
This morning was the last day of classes for the first half of the A1 German Deutschkurs!!! We took some pictures and then after class some of us went across the street for an espresso in this Italian cafe while the Italian waitor tried talking to us in German. We both spoke "Deutsch nich so gut" so it was really funny. He did however tell me my name was "ganz schon!" Haha, which whether he meant it or not was nice because lol, EVERYONE here spells it "Down" and I try to tell people, "no it isn't walking 'down' the stairs! it is 'Dawn' like 'morgen tag'!!!" Oh well! :-D
After our espressos one of the guys bought me a spinach wahen (I think, spinach cheesecake) to take home and now this afternoon, I am just messing around and shall get ready for this weekend trip with the girls. I swear if I see a rat, I shall just die!!! Should be fun though. :-P
Last week myself and the Mrs checked out some schools in Zurich. There was one in an area which she said many different cultures resided in these few blocks because it was cheaper. She then told me that there are occasionally prostitutes walking around. This area was actually fairly clean, surprisingly. That is one thing that is so surprising about Zurich. Despite the fact that is is an International city, it is realtively small and one can run it to people they know all the time. Twice I've passed aupairs just rambling around. One of the girls said it was NOTHING like Atlanta, lol. The other school is nearby the Starbucks by Bahnhofstrasse so I think I am leaning towards the latter. It does seem to fit into our schedule much better than the other so that is great. If everything works out then after the break during the holidays I will take an assessment test and will hopefully have completed the first part of A1 German and the Last week of September start classes in Zurich!
Last week I also was somewhat successful in taking a message!!! Haha! Somebody called and of course I answered it and said "Hallo" and then there were several German questions. I asked the gentleman if he spoke English, he said no, and then proceeded to ask me if I spoke Italian? No. French? No. Spanish!?! No. Then laughter . . . I proceeded to ask him, "name", which he gave and just my luck it sounded difficult. So I then tried to get him to spell it out and finding that hopeless, scribbled something that would remind me what it sounded like. Lol. So then I was able to ask him his telefonnummer. Yay! I can do numbers! null . . . sieben . . . acht . . . drei . . . He then said bravo and asked me where I was from. Hehehe, so it worked out. Lol. He wished me luck and said in 7 months I should be just fine. We shall see. :-P
This weekend will be lots of fun as I think on our way to the barn we will see a monastery, possibly, and then on Sunday coming back we will do something else and then the huge game is Sunday night. I am going to be exhausted Monday . . . ;-) Spain won yesterday 3-0 and will play against Germany!!! Apparantly this will be a great game!
Habst du gut wochend! Not sure if this was right . . . Have a good weekend! ;-)
